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81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT Engagement Diary
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Government Machinery: No.10 letter to Barney Hayhoe PS (“Non-Departmental Public Bodies: A Guide for Departments”) [MT comments on draft] [declassified 2014]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Middle East: Julian Amery to Peter Carrington (visit to Jordan) [“The King believes that Iraq holds the key to the future of the area”] [released 2017]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Reagan Library)	Cold War: Secretary of State Haig's Evening Report ("Meetings with German State Secretary van Well, Demarche to Soviets on Lebanon and Possible Carribean Naval Deployment, El Salvador, Nicaragua") [declassified 2016]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Transport: Fowler minute to MT ("Main Line Electrification of British Railways") [Department's comments on Alan Walters paper; rate of return; concentration of rail network] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Transport: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Railway Policy") [Fowler proposals for renewal & electrification programme; proposals for placing orders for BR rolling stock with Metro Cammell] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Merseyside: Department of Employment, Minister of State's Office, letter to No.10 ("Tate & Lyle") [closure of Liverpool sugar refinary: redundancy negotiations and position of trade union] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Walters MSS)	Economy: Alan Walters diary (Railway Electrification) [Railway Electrification; Prior defence of wage councils awful] [released 2012]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Conservative Party: Caroline Stephens letter to Gordon Reece (return to help with MT broadcast) [don't leak] [released 2012]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Gilmour memo circulated to OD Committee - OD(81) 22 (UK/Iran Relations: Supply of Defence Equipment) [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Canadian PM)	Canada: Kirby minute for Trudeau (“Assessment of the Government’s Current Constitutional Position”) [decisive role of the Supreme Court - strategize accordingly] [declassified 2013]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Middle East: Yasser Arafat message to MT ("Lebanon Fighting: PLO Position") [Israeli attacks on PLO camps] [released 2012]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	US: MT letter to Sir Ralph Bateman (criticism within the US of MT's economic policies) [released 2012]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Trivial	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	MT: MT letter to Anthony Steen MP ("Thatcher's" restaurant mentioned in Egon Ronay's Guide) [MT congratulations Steen on his success] [released 2012]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Civil Service Strike") ["I am increasingly concerned that we are not managing the strike effectively"] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Civil Service: Civil Service Department letter to No.10 ("Industrial Action Progress Report") [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Energy: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Industrial Energy Prices (E(81) 39)") [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Energy: Walters minute to MT ("Memorandum on the Price of Energy") [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Sanders minute to MT ("Seat Belts") [press reports that a free vote on seat belt wearing is imminent; divisions in Cabinet over issue] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Steel: MT letter to Dale Campbell-Savours MP (closure of Distington Foundry) ["It seems to me that Mr. MacGregor has...given a very full and considered explanation [of the reasons for closure]"] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Romania: Amnesty International letter to No.10 ("Visit of Prime Minister of Romania: Mr Ilie Verdet") [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Education: Lord Hailsham letter to Whitelaw (student loans) [vehemently opposed to the principle] [declassified 2014]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	France: UK Ambassador to Paris despatch to Carrington ("Likely Political Consequences of the French Presidential Election") [election of Mitterrand] [declassified 2012]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Transport: Armstrong briefing for MT ("Railways Policy (E(81) 41-45)") [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Pay: Armstrong minute to MT ("TSRB Report No. 16: Handling") [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Gilmour memo circulated to OD Committee - OD(81) 22 (UK/Iran Relations: Supply of Defence Equipment) [as annotated by MT] [declassified 2011]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Government machinery: No.10 letter to FCO (FCO/ODA common services integration) [MT “very disappointing. Other departments have not found the same difficulties”] [declassified 2012]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Parliament: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“House of Lords”) [sub-committee on reform] [declassified 2012]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Minor	Margaret Thatcher	Speech on microcomputers in schools
81 Apr 6 Mo	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Major	Margaret Thatcher	Press Conference for Arab Correspondents
81 Apr 6 Mo	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Minor	Margaret Thatcher	Interview for Central Office of Information (coming Gulf visit)
81 Apr 6 Mo	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Minor	Margaret Thatcher	Radio Interview for BBC
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Foreign Exchange & Gold Market report (daily report on market conditions) [declassified 2012]
81 Apr 6 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Bank of England)	Monetary policy: Government Broker's daily report (market conditions & official activity in the gilt-market) [declassified 2012]

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